House of Brutii

The House of Brutii were a Roman noble family from southern Italy.

History
The Brutii were the founders of the Roman Republic, with Lucius Junius Brutus leading the 507 BC revolution that overthrew the Kingdom of Rome and established a senate. The Brutii were based in Bruttium and Apulia in southern Italy, with their capital at Tarentum. Brutii warriors were the ones responsible for the conquest of the Greek Cities and Pontus in Asia Minor in the 200s BC, and were loyal to the Roman Senate during the Roman Civil War of 203. This led to their near-destruction as the House of Julii took over Rome, and the Brutii had to work under them. This was until 44 BCE, when Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger and Gaius Cassius Longinus stabbed Julius Caesar to death and renewed the civil war. Their final doom came at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, where their last men were killed by Gaius Octavius.